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I had a question the other day about transferring patterns onto fabric, so I thought I would write a tutorial on some of the techniques that I have used to transfer patterns onto fabric. Tracing. Place the fabric over the pattern, on a lightbox (or hold it up to a lighted window – hard on [...] Sometimes you just can’t seem to get that thread through the eye of the needle, and you don’t have a needle theader handy. That’s ok, if you have some paper, you’ll be right! To thread a needle with paper, cut a very narrow strip, about 5cm/2 inches long. It needs to be narrow enough to [...] Thanks to all who have replied to my questions about bullions. I have scattered these questions all over the internet, and from everyone’s responses have put together a collection of great tips. Because I am stuck here in Ethiopia with my little netbook, I can’t give you any diagrams for working bullions, but I have [...] I am interested in hearing about the problems that people have with bullion stitch – if any! What goes wrong for you? What bugs you about your bullions? Did you ever have an “a-ha!” moment where you solved something that you had been doing wrong?- what was it that you had been doing wrong, and [...] I received a lovely email from a customer the other day, who has been teaching herself how to do Mountmellick embroidery. I include some of if below. By the way, I haven’t sent a picture of the problem I was having with Palestrina stitch, but I did notice that the instructions in Inspirations magazine which [...] During my prolonged illness, there have been times when all I have felt like doing is reading. And sometimes where my brain can’t even handle reading. At other times I feel that I can take a little more activity. Of course, I’d love to be doing some embroidery, but most of the time that’s too [...] |
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